Exhibition Program

Installation of glass artwork by Robert Fielding in Glassworks smokestack gallery

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Showing in 2025

Arum

03 Apr - 08 Jun 2025
Designer Tom Fereday presents a solo show exploring thoughtful design that examines the tension between natural materials and contemporary manufacturing.

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Meander

03 Apr - 08 Jun 2025
Glassmaker Katie-Ann Houghton explores the relationship between form and pattern, drawing inspiration from architectural details in her first solo exhibition.

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Aiden Hartshorn

19 Jun - 10 Aug 2025
Walgalu/Wiradjuri artist Aiden Hartshorn explores the ongoing colonial disruptions to Walgalu connections with the land using industrial glass.

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Will Lynes

21 Aug - 26 Oct 2025
Artist & designer Will Lynes presents a solo exhibition delves into the tension between precision and imperfection.

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Gabriella Bisetto

06 Nov - 25 Jan 26
Established glass artist, Gabriella Bisetto explores organic and visceral objects, drawing inspiration from the shapes and structures found within the human body that sustain us.

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2024 Exhibition Program

Nicholas Burridge, Load-bearing, 2024, toughened glass, augur, steel

Built Geologies

13 Jan - 25 Feb 2024

Nicholas Burridge is inspired by terraforming, a concept which literally translates to “Earth-shaping”.

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Artwork by Rosalind Lemoh installed as part of Told.Retold.Untold. 2024 at Canberra Glassworks.

Told. Retold. Untold.

07 Mar - 28 Apr 2024
Born in Sierra Leone and based in Gundaroo, New South Wales, Rosalind Lemoh’s artistic practice deeply examines identity within the Australian context.

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Pink Moon

01 Aug - 22 Sep 2024

Cobi Cockburn is a celebrated contemporary artist, who uses glass, light, and line as her medium. Pink Moon marks a departure from her established palette and uses colour as a metaphor for the human experience of being and feeling.

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Island Hopping

03 Oct - 15 Dec 2024
Island Hopping embodies Jeffrey Sarmiento’s transnational identity as a Filipino diasporic artist. Blending traditional glassblowing with printmaking and digital fabrication, Sarmiento visualises the complexities of cultural hybridity, showing how identities evolve through the intersection of different influences.

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Mythica Ignota

03 Oct - 15 Dec 2024

Through a deep-conceptual and value-driven philosophy, Alice Springs designer Elliat Rich taps into ancient and future ways of seeing the world. Mythica Ignota uses mythology as a framework to nest scientific observation and more-than-human orientated values with artefact and narrative. 

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Artist, Robert Fielding, seated on a large rock in Country.

NYARU

09 May - 21 Jul 2024

Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrernte and Yankunytjatjara descent, who lives in Mimili Community in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

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2023 Exhibition Program

Net Worth

12 Jan - 26 Feb 2023
Net Worth brings together the works of emerging artists Louis Grant, Jessica Murtagh, Shirley Jianzhen Wu and Madisyn Zabel. They explore concepts of identity, societal stereotypes, and technology overlayed with history and craftsmanship engrained in glassmaking.

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Two cast glass stones displayed on a sheet of engraved timber.

Baayangalibiyaay

18 May - 21 Jul 2023
An exhibition of new works that explores the story of materiality and memory which looks to the glassmaking process to record, absorb, reflect and transform its body as a means by which to translate great periods of upheaval and environmental crisis across river landscapes.

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a circular logic

23 Jul - 08 Oct 2023
a circular logic is an installation activated by time and space. Lisa Sammut creates immersive installations that offer the viewer the chance to experience and encounter something magical. These are spaces for deep reflection where nothing else seems to exist.

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Glass gold leaf coins with 'TRY AGAIN' stamped on them

WHAT GAVE YOU THAT IDEA

23 Jul - 08 Oct 2023
New works in glass by Zoe Brand explores human interactions through phrases that can be read or misread, and how quickly things can be interpreted or misinterpreted.

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Series of five colourful & geometric glass vessels

MEMPHIS NOW

19 Oct to 16 Dec 2023

This co-curated group show featuring works by Judi Elliot, Drew Spangenberg, April Phillips, Kate Benazi and Gibson Karlo draws on the visually extravagant design movement that was derived by the Memphis Group.

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2022 Exhibition Program

the tender

3 Feb – 27 Mar 2022

A solo show by Jacqueline Bradley, 2021 Artist in Residence, the peach and other stone fruit are a symbol of the phases of growing, feeding, and rotting flesh, both human and fruit. Engaging our senses of sight, smell, and touch, this bodily association provides links not only to fertility but also how we experience beauty, kindness, and pleasure.

In association with Aquifer, Feb – May 2022, a Territory-wide program of dialogue, events and exhibitions responding to the current climate crisis.

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Upending Expectations

14 Apr – 5 Jun 2022

A group exhibition featuring works by Gabriella Bisetto, Cobi Cockburn, Nadege Desgenetez, Mel Douglas, Rose-Mary Faulkner, Nicholas Folland, Jonathan Jones, Kirstie Rea, Harriet Schwarzrock, Brendan Van Hek and Annie Cattrel.

This contemporary glass exhibition focuses on artists whose experimental, innovative and at times cross-disciplinary practices utilise glass and its properties of light, transparency, and reflection. These artists have engaged with concepts of identity, place , transformations, and the intersection of both personal and public histories that resonate with social and politically charged narratives.

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